Section 1Sec./Art. 1

Nature and Scope of Franchise.

Subject to the provisions of the Constitution and applicable laws, rules and regulations, there is hereby granted to the Message Systems, Inc., hereunder referred to as the grantee, its successors or assigns, a franchise to construct, establish, install, maintain and operate for commercial purposes and in the public interest, mobile station or stations, telecommunications system, lines, cable, or systems and associated equipment and facilities for international and domestic communications, including but not limited to satellite transmission, for any and all forms or types of telecommunication services, with authority to receive and transmit messages, facsimile, impressions, pictures, music, data and voice, throughout the Philippines and between the Philippines and other countries and territories, ships at sea, aircrafts and conveyances, stations and telecommunications systems of other countries, including the rights and privileges of cable and fixed wireless telecommunications system such as paging system, cellular telephone system, personal communications network, trunked radio services, fiber optics, multi-channel distributions systems, service bureau and other telecommunication systems/services or technologies and other means related to the foregoing now known to science or which in the future may be developed through technological/technical advances or innovations in the future for public domestic and international telecommunications and purchase any or all of the equipment and materials needed in its operations; and to install, establish, construct, maintain and operate transmitting and receiving stations, switching stations, gateway facilities for local and international services, lines, cables or systems as it may consider necessary and convenient.